See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. This week: Inequality as […]
The Philosophy Of Uncertainty: An Introduction. Complete Preface. Update
Le livre, he is done! I yesterday sent a proposal to a philosophy editor at Cambridge. Not enough equations or pictures in it to pique the interest of the statistics editor, I […]
Comment On “Origin of probabilities and their application to the multiverse”
Today, since I’m very busy, a small-ish review—mere comments, really—of “Origin of probabilities and their application to the multiverse” by Andreas Albrecht and Daniel Phillips. I got this paper via George Shiber, […]
Atheists Claim There Is No Such Thing As Gravity—Or Shakespeare!
How’s this argument grab you? There are many competing theories of (quantum) gravity. They cannot all be correct. Therefore, they must all be wrong and thus there is no such thing as […]
The New Religion Of Dataism (Another Version Of Man-As-God)
Dataism is the word coined by Yuval Noah Harari in his essay for an optimistic, practical implementation of Scientism. Just as divine authority was legitimised by religious mythologies, and human authority was […]
Data Do Not Have Means: Or, The Deadly Sin of Reification Strikes Again!
No, data do not have means. Nor do they have variances, autocorrelations, partial or otherwise, nor moments; nor do they have any other statistical characteristic you care to name. Data only have […]
There’s More Than Physics: A Review Of Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos. Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Kurland provides us with a succinct review of Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False. This will ease us into the week with a discussion […]
Paper Finds Pattern In Primes: What About Randomness & Chance?
Here’s the headline in Nature: “Peculiar pattern found in ‘random’ prime numbers“, an article which opens “Two mathematicians have found a strange pattern in prime numbers — showing that the numbers are […]
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